HISTORY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Yale Daily News, Peter Salovey, Hopper College
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David shimer and david yaffe-bellany, calhoun to remain namesake, yale daily. The university president peter salovey announced the decision to retain the name of calhoun college as a part of a community-wide email. The debate to change the name gained new momentum this fall as racially charged protests shook campus. The university is keeping its name so that the community will remember one of the most disturbing aspects of its past, rejecting the demands of student activists who argue that the name honors a white supremacist. Salovey says that removing calhoun"s name obscures the legacy of slavery rather than addressing it. The decision to keep the college name has created a furious reaction from campus activists who made renaming calhoun one of the central demands of their movement. Students believe that yale not changing the name shows them to be unchanging.
